Marni Market Playland in Milano

We, at Mimi Berlin, didn’t attend the Salone del Mobile 2017 this year because we missed our flight. But that you now by now, if you follow our blog….. Well, this week we will be posting about venues, designs and other places we feel we really missed out on. Being the Fashion Angels that we are we feel sorry for missing Marni‘s Playland installation. Luckily there are lot’s of pictures, gif’s and what have you not, on the interweb. And Marni also created a mini-market online for us to buy stuff from. Like the bag pictured below; which is actually a ‘Maxi geometric vase holder’ or a “trapeze-shaped-PVC- Artefact-product-with-possible-mperfections”; LOL!

photo via dezeen.com

photo via dezeen.com

Maxi geometric vase holder € 260,00

“On the occasion of Milan 2017 Salone del Mobile, Marni will be transforming its space at Viale Umbria 42 into one big playground: MARNI PLAYLAND.
Reflecting on the concept of play, Marni invites the public to forget predefined rules and structures and interact with the surrounding space and the intriguing elements it contains. The MARNI PLAYLAND is a stretch of sand which is the perfect backdrop for a series of extraordinary objects and furniture sculptures that have cast practicality aside to embrace their playful side, leaving them open to interpretation.” (read more marni.com)

On Marni’s Youtube channel you’ll find more video’s and more images are to be seen at dezeen.com

Sunday To Do Tip: Abcoude

Today would be a nice day to visit the lovely village of Abcoude, close to Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Why? Beacause the private home ‘Shamrock House’ in Abcoude is open to public, and it’s filled with art, design objects, photography and tableware, all for sale. Oh.. and Dutch artist Meinbert Gozewijn van Soest will be drawing your portrait if you want. This exhibition is organized by Vasco del Arte and it houses work by, a.o; Airco Caravan, Narouz Moltzer, Peter Klashorst, Marcel Smink, JW Kaldenbach, Gem Kingdom, Adzer van der Molen, Mrs Jack and yours truly Mimi Berlin.

At the kitchentable in the Shamrock house

At the kitchentable in the Shamrock house

At the kitchentable Meinbert Gozewijn van Soest

Meinbert Gozewijn van Soest

Work by Meinbert Gozewijn van Soest

Work by Peter Klashorst

Work by Mimi Berlin at the Shamrock House

Work by Mimi Berlin

Work by Adzer van der Molen

Work by JW Kaldenbach

Tableware from Mrs Jack

Work by Airco Caravan

Work by Sybila Bauman and Rutger van der Tas

Jewelry by Gem Kingdom

newspaper clipping “De Groene Venen” November 18, 2016

We did follow up on the Sunday to do tip, see the photo’s, made by JW Kaldenbach, above.

Adam and Eve in Wood

No, these are no dolls for sex educational purposes. This was your typical average home decoration set in the 1970s, Adam (with a penis and balls) and Eve (with a vagina) both made out of wood. You could get them in various sizes, but they were all made to fuck! The ones below are the Dutch/German/Belgian version

seventies adam and eve from mimi berlin’s attic

design adam and eve by Tony Futura

Rightside: made by/via Tony Futura, On the left: original dolls from the 1970s, found on Mimi Berlin’s atic.

Comparing the wooden objects above also says a lot about design; Then and Now.

Gem Kingdom x Mimi Berlin, 2014. (Assembled Bronze/1980s pressed glass/Axa Bike Lamp) Ich Will ein Fisch im Wasser Sein is a statuette made with found objects which doubles as a lamp. It is the first collaboration by the Gem Kingdom and Mimi Berlin SpecialsIch Will ein Fisch im Wasser Sein is made by hand and can be made to order, all UNIQUE pieces. Please contact Mimi Berlin for more information.
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